Monthly Archives: October 2010

Documentation Map for HeekCAD

I’ve been on my latest kick on the lack of a map for how heekscad is laid out. I thought that perhaps, I could just use some software and magically suck out some UML diagrams to take care of that.. … Continue reading

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Giving ArgoUml a whirl

Ok.. So tried umbrello from the synaptic repository and It seems like I was getting some segmentation faults on my first little try… Sort of like a bad first date… Later… Well lets see what first impression are with ArgoUml … Continue reading

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Uml tools some basic research

I’ve been playing around trying to develop a tool to identify bad-contraints within HeeksCAD.  Well, I was reflecting to myself that this was trying to work out an electrical problem without have a circuit diagram. The thought occurred to me … Continue reading

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Is a heekscad Constraint valid?

A friend of my was telling me a story about a programmer who worked on software he uses. Apparently, this guy was brilliant but a bit eccentric.  I guess he would program for a couple of hours and take a … Continue reading

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First heekscad code contribution, and working on figuring what to do on the second

Well, I submitted what I consider actually coding contribution to Heekscad http://code.google.com/p/heekscad/source/detail?r=1332 It’s not really a address the root cause of why these constraint errors are happening, but at least it catches some of them on a file load and … Continue reading

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Yet another heekscad constraint critter… Go figure… Time to build a fly swatter

I think I’m running into a unimplemented function or something… I’m getting the segmentation fault in this routine: line GetLineFromEndedObject(EndedObject* eobj) { eobj->LoadToDoubles(); point p; p.x = &eobj->A->mx; p.y = &eobj->A->my; PushBack(p.x); PushBack(p.y); point p2; p2.x = &eobj->B->mx; p2.y = … Continue reading

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Trying to get back to the cylindrical popup project but these bugs related to heekscad constraints keep taunting me

I’ve been playing around with the dimensional constraints and they’re pretty cool. The insidious thing is that there are a bunch of critters in the code that seems to be causing either segmentation faults or cause the constraints on the … Continue reading

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Taking a wack at fixing my first heekscad bug.

I have the need to adjust a line to exactly 1″ in heekscad… (I just can’t get into that thar metric stuff just yet). Anyway.. I’m suspect that since I running inch.. Some thing is hosed up in the code. … Continue reading

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Rapidsvn frustrations solved for heekscad

My heekscad adventure lately has been a bit disappointing.  I had gotten by diagonal pop-up box design made and I was elated.  I thought test out the rest of the constraints and make a parametric model of a pop-out cylinder.  … Continue reading

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Recording a tutorial

This is not a fully developed thought… I just did some quick search and wanted preserve the link. I found pyvnc2swf in the ubuntu synpatic repositories.  I thought it would be sort of cool to record a video of stuff … Continue reading

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